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nothing of pleasantry or peace. The windows seem as though they are "vacant," and "eye-like" and the narrator continues in this ...
This paper examines the issue of gender in Le Guin's short story, Sur. The author discusses gender roles, symbolism, and thematic...
the skill they once had, but rather their passion for that subject matter. For example, an opera singer such as Leoni may well hav...
in this short story depict them simply in neutral roles. Some of the female depictions in this story, however, at least hint at t...
Many factual elements of Schmids horrendous crimes and his persona impregnate Oates short story. Schmid is described in the "Life...
he urges Jig to have an abortion. Despite the fact that the man repeatedly says that he does not want Jig to do anything that sh...
Hemingway makes clear his own feelings even without stating them by delving more into the older waiters character than the younger...
Although she does not discuss this case specifically, Jacobys "Common Decency" allows insight to the Schmid cases and Oates fictio...
Understandably, such an action might be interpreted as a willingness on her part but in reality this action, even though Arnold ne...
The obvious conclusion that many students come to when considering this encounter was that Connie in effect encouraged Arnolds pur...
groups" (Robinson 73). Apparently these community fault lines developed in accordance with the religious/ benevolent functions of ...
is described as apelike and lowered its claws, and became a pliant beast (Colette, 197)" (Johnny Boy). This critic indicates that ...
his deceptiveness, and the danger the ensuing adventure holds for her become more understandable when Friend is viewed as the mani...
to save her family. Perhaps she can convince him not to kill anyone, but instead, she only pleads for her own life without much re...
at the same time he is not successful, such as the relationship with his grandfather and a wife. In terms of three specific events...
himself during this period (Ross, 1999). He began writing soon after his arrival in Canada, and won the "Canadian Fiction Magazin...
in this depression she begins to see things in this wallpaper, a patterned wallpaper, that essentially symbolizes her sense of ent...
Adam and Eve, in the Garden of Eden and God as Creator. However, at this point, with the intervention of the devil, there is a cru...
are powerfully illustrative of the claim that many female writers of the time used the ghost story as a means of examining, indire...
that "The Cask of Amontillado" centers more around the theme of revenge than do any of Poes gruesome works. "The Cask of Amontill...
powerful persuasiveness to lead man astray, the consequences of disobeying God and the subsequent struggle of all humanity. It is ...
knowledge and, occasionally, pronounced comatose or unconscious patients as dead (Premature Burial). There were documented instanc...
her arms and legs, eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one...
the more meaning it opens up" (Yaghjian 268). Christian symbols and portrayals of Christ abound in "A Good Man is Hard to...
as life slips away alongside the wonderment borne of childhood is, perhaps, some of the most intense and illustrative of all Hales...
was very young, so young in fact that he had only a couple of fleeting memories of him. His mothers life was hard yet she managed...
Companion of the British Empire and was awarded doctorates from Trinity College, Dublin and Oxford. In 1999, on the 100th annivers...
Her Peers"). The Women The primary women, as a whole, present us with knowledgeable and observant women who quickly discover w...
can see that the Hills, which the man remarks are like White Elephants, "refer to the shape of the belly of a pregnant woman, and ...
an article entitled "Every Womans Dream," which appeared in April 7 edition of The Weekly (1954, p. 59). The student researching t...